|
This article's content is marked as Mature The page contains mature content that may include coarse language, sexual references, and/or graphic violent images which may be disturbing to some. Mature pages are recommended for those who are 18 years of age and older.
If you are 18 years or older or are comfortable with graphic material, you are free to view this page. Otherwise, you should close this page and view another page.
|
“
|
SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL!? Scaring the little girl!? LADY! We're diverting in some tinpot airport in the middle of nowhere! And I've got better things to think about than SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL!?
|
„
|
|
~ Craig's most famous quote.
|
|
“
|
You're out there, aren't you? You ate up all the useless, lazy people and now you're coming back for me. But I'll be gone by the time you get here. I'm going to Boston.
|
„
|
|
~ Toomey to the langoliers.
|
|
Craig Toomey is the main antagonist of The Langoliers novella and miniseries. He is a mentally unstable businessman who (thanks to a traumatic childhood) lives his life in constant paranoia of the novella's titular monsters. Already loud, aggressive, and balancing on a thin line of sanity at the start of the story, his ensuing encounter with the langoliers' dead world causes him to lose his mind completely.
He was portrayed by Bronson Pinchot, who also voiced the Griffin in Quest for Camelot.
Personality[]
Craig Toomey is a rude and selfish character. Because of the torture that he endured as a child, Craig lived his life in fear, doing everything to avoid being considered as lazy or unproductive. Whenever Craig became stressed out because he wasn't fulfilling the task at hand, he would hallucinate his father, whom would proceed to berate him and threaten him with the Langoliers. Due to him him only living his life in the fear of Langoliers and not in his own interest, Craig desperately sought to get "out" of this way of life by loosing his company millions of dollars.
Craig sees everyone around him as a monster, as seen when Dinah saw through his eyes. Because of this, and paranoia that they might be Langoliers, he has no respect for them. This caused him to develop violent tendencies, attempting to murder several of the other characters throughout the duration of the story. While talking to himself, Craig clarifies that he doesn't want to hurt anyone but he will if he has to.
Biography[]
Craig Toomey, a mentally unstable man who has knowingly and proudly caused a $43,000,000 loss to his company. Dinah, who possesses psychic powers, sees through Toomey's eyes and recognises him as a threat.
Brian takes over the plane and announces that, for safety, the flight will be redirected from Boston to Bangor, Maine. Toomey aggressively protests and announces that it is crucial that he attends his business trip in Boston.
In a flashback, it is revealed that Toomey was abused as a child by his overbearing and sadistic father; when Craig failed to make straight A's, his father warned him about the "Langoliers"; creatures that chased down the lazy and devoured them. He is desperate to reach his appointment in Boston in order to announce his willful loss of finances to his boss and be freed of his father's wrath.
The plane lands at Bangor International Airport and the passengers find that it is devoid of life and electricity; even cars and battery-powered devices are useless. Dinah confesses that she hears an eerie "crunching cereal" sound in the distance that is coming closer and demands that they must leave before it reaches them or they will die; the sound eventually becomes loud enough that all the survivors hear it. Toomey sneaks away from the group while the rest find a restaurant and decide to stop for food. He is then confronted by a hallucination of his father and the two begin to argue. The hallucination disappears, and Toomey decides to get a gun. He returns with the gun and takes Bethany hostage while demanding a flight to Boston; in an attempt to rescue her, Albert is shot, but the gun has no force and the round harmlessly bounces off his chest.
Toomey is captured and Bob deduces that, as they flew through an unusual aurora borealis during the flight, they have flown through a rip in the space-time continuum, traveling about 15 minutes into the past, where anything with energy has moved on without them; therefore, jet fuel would be useless. However, using Bob's logic, Albert correctly deduces that, since the plane contains electricity and life, that it contains its own pocket of the present time; therefore, anything loaded into the plane would subsequently regain its energy, even jet fuel. During this period, Nick and Laurel begin to fall in love.
Toomey escapes from his trap; now completely insane, he stabs Dinah in the chest and kills Gaffney, fearing that they are disguised Langoliers. Albert subdues Toomey and Nick plans to kill him in revenge before Dinah insists that he stay alive, to which Nick reluctantly obliges. The remaining survivors return to the plane to refuel it. Toomey regains consciousness, and Dinah communicates with him telepathically to convince him to come to the tarmac, where his Boston bosses have arrived to meet with him. He hallucinates the board of directors are there, along with his boss (Stephen King in a cameo appearance), where he gleefully confesses to purposely losing millions. He is overjoyed until his boss transforms into his father, who chastises him.
The plane completes its refueling just as Toomey regains awareness and sees the Langoliers approaching. He screams loudly and runs, drawing them away from the plane. Toomey is killed by the Langoliers and the plane narrowly escapes.
Trivia[]
- Toomey's name was spelled as "Toomy" in the original novella.
- His face was more damaged with the toaster in the original novella.
Navigation[]
|
Novels/Novellas
Carrie:
Carrie White |
Mortimer Snerds (Chris Hargensen,
Donna and Mary Lila Grace Thibodeau,
Helen Shyres, Heather Shyres &
Tina Blake) |
Margaret White |
Billy Nolan |
Ralph White
Salem's Lot:
Kurt Barlow |
Richard Straker |
Marsten House
The Shining:
Overlook Hotel |
Jack Torrance |
Hotel Caretaker |
Grady Sisters |
Lorraine Massey
Children of the Corn:
Children of the Corn
(Isaac Chroner &
Malachai Boardman) |
He Who Walks Behind the Rows
Rage:
Charlie Decker |
Mr. Decker
The Stand:
Randall Flagg |
Barry Dorgan |
Bobby Terry |
Harold Lauder |
Julie Lawry |
Lloyd Henreid |
Nadine Cross |
The Kid |
The Rat Man |
Trashcan Man |
Whitney Horgan
The Long Walk:
The Major |
Gary Barkovitch
The Dead Zone:
Greg Stillson |
Frank Dodd
The Mist:
Adrian Garff
Mrs. Carmody |
The Mist
Firestarter:
Captain Hollister |
Doctor Herman Pynchot |
John Rainbird
Roadwork:
Barton George Dawes |
Sal Magliore
Cujo:
Cujo |
Joe Camber |
Stephen Kemp
The Running Man:
Damon Killian |
United States of America
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption:
Samuel Norton |
Byron Hadley |
Sisters (Bogs Diamond) |
Elmo Blatch
Apt Pupil:
Kurt Dussander |
Todd Bowden
The Body:
The Cobras (John "Ace" Merrill,
Richard "Eyeball" Chambers,
Billy Tessio,
Charlie Hogan,
Vince Desjardins,
Jack Mudgett &
Norman "Fuzzy" Bracowicz)
Christine:
Arnie Cunningham |
Christine |
Repperton Gang |
Roland D. LeBay
Pet Sematary:
Wendigo |
Church |
Gage Creed |
Rachel Creed |
Timmy Baterman
Cycle of the Werewolf:
Lester Lowe
The Tailsman:
Morgan Sloat
Thinner:
Billy Halleck |
Tadzu Lempke |
Cary Rossington |
Duncan Hopley |
Gabe Romani |
Gina Lempke |
Richie Ginelli
Dolan's Cadillac:
Jimmy Dolan
It:
It |
Bowers Gang
(Belch Huggins,
Henry Bowers,
Marcia Fadden,
Patrick Hockstetter,
Peter Gordon &
Vic Criss) |
Alvin Marsh |
Butch Bowers |
Richard Macklin |
Tom Rogan |
Christopher Unwin |
Webby Garton
Misery:
Annie Wilkes
The Tommyknockers:
Tommyknockers |
Nancy Voss
The Dark Half:
George Stark
Secret Window, Secret Garden:
John Shooter
The Langoliers:
Craig Toomey |
Langoliers |
Roger Toomey
Needful Things:
Leland Gaunt |
John "Ace" Merrill |
Danforth Keeton III |
Brian Rusk |
Wilma Jerzyck |
Nettie Cobb |
Hugh Preist |
Father Brigham (Father Meehan) |
Reverend Rose
Gerald's Game:
Gerald Burlingame |
Moonlight Man |
Tom Mahout
Dolores Claiborne:
Joe St. George
Insomnia:
Atropos |
Crimson King
Rose Madder:
Norman Daniels
The Green Mile:
William Wharton |
Percy Wetmore
Desperation:
Tak |
Sheriff Collie Entragian
The Regulators:
Tak
Bag of Bones:
Max Devore |
Sara Tidwell |
Roggete Whitmore
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon:
God of the Lost
Dreamcatcher:
Byrus |
Mr. Gray
Black House:
Charles Burnside |
The Crow Gorg |
Mr. Munshun
From a Buick 8:
The Buick
Cell:
Phone Crazies |
Raggedy Man
Lisey's Story:
Andrew Landon |
Jim Dooley |
Long Boy
The Gingerbread Girl:
Jim Pickering
Duma Key:
Perse |
Undead Victims
Under the Dome:
Jim Rennie |
Junior Rennie |
Phil Bushey |
Leatherheads
1922:
Wilfred James |
Henry James |
Shannon Cotterie
Big Driver:
Lester Norville |
Ramona Norville
A Good Marriage:
Robert Bob Anderson
11/22/63:
Lee Harvey Oswald |
Frank Dunning
In The Tall Grass:
Ross Humboldt |
Cal Demuth
Doctor Sleep:
The True Knot (Rose the Hat,
Crow Daddy,
Grandpa Flick,
Barry the Chink &
Snakebite Andi) |
Andy Hallorann
Bill Hodges Trilogy:
Brady Hartsfield |
Morris Bellamy
Gwendy's Button Box:
Richard Farris
The Outsider:
The Outsider
Fairy Tale:
Gogmagog |
Elden |
Petra |
Kellin |
Hana |
Red Molly |
Peterkin |
Christopher Polley
Short Stories
Cain Rose Up:
Curt Garrish
The Mangler:
Bill Gartley |
The Mangler
The Boogeyman:
The Boogeyman
Trucks:
Westway Refrigerated Truck |
Bulldozer
The Ledge:
Cressner
Jerusalem's Lot:
Philip Boone |
James Boon |
The Worm
Quitter's Inc.:
Mr. Donatti |
Quitters Inc.
The Crate:
Crate Beast
Crouch End:
The Children |
The Goat with a Thousand Young
The Monkey:
The Monkey
The Raft:
Lake Blob
Word Processor of the Gods:
Richard Hagstrom |
Roger Hagstrom
Gramma:
Gramma Bruckner
The Night Flier:
Dwight Renfield
Low Men in Yellow Coats:
Harry Doolin
Blind Willie:
Raymond Fiegler
Why We're In Vietnam:
Ronnie Malenfant
Lunch at the Gotham Café:
Guy
Films
The Shining:
Overlook Hotel (Lloyd, Lorraine Massey &
Hotel Caretaker) |
Jack Torrance
Creepshow:
Creepshow Creep |
Crate Beast |
Nathan Grantham |
Richard Vickers |
Upson Pratt |
Wilma Northrup
Cat's Eye:
Cressner |
Mr. Donatti |
Quitters Inc. |
Troll
Maximum Overdrive:
Bubba Hendershot |
Camp Loman |
Happy Toyz Truck |
Ice Cream Truck |
M274 Mule |
Vending Machine
A Return to Salem`s Lot:
Judge Axle
Creepshow 2:
Creepshow Creep |
Creepshow Bullies |
Lake Blob |
Sam Whitemoon |
The HitchHiker
Sleepwalkers:
Charles Brady |
Mary Brady |
Sleepwalkers
Pet Sematary 2:
Gus Gilbert |
Renee Hallow |
Clyde Parker |
Zowie
The Mangler Trilogy:
Bill Gartley |
The Mangler |
Lin Sue |
The Mangler Virus
The Rage: Carrie 2:
Rachel Lang |
Mark Bing
Creepshow 3:
Creepshow Creep |
Rachel
The Dark Tower:
Randall Flagg
It: Part One:
It |
Bowers Gang (Henry Bowers,
Vic Criss |
Belch Huggins &
Patrick Hockstetter)
Pet Sematary (2019):
Ellie Creed
It: Part Two:
It |
Henry Bowers |
Tom Rogan
Doctor Sleep:
The True Knot (Rose the Hat,
Crow Daddy,
Grandpa Flick,
Barry the Chink &
Snakebite Andi) |
Overlook Hotel (Jack Torrance,
Hotel Caretaker &
Lorraine Massey)
The Boogeyman:
Boogeyman
TV Series
The Stand:
Randall Flagg |
Harold Lauder |
Julie Lawry |
Nadine Cross |
The Rat Woman |
Trashcan Man
The Shining:
Overlook Hotel |
Jack Torrance |
Hotel Caretaker |
Lorraine Massey
Storm of the Century:
André Linoge
Rose Red:
Professor Joyce Reardon |
Ellen Rimbauer
Under the Dome:
Big Jim Rennie |
Junior Rennie |
Phil Bushey |
The Kinship (Christine Price &
Dawn Sinclair-Barbara)
Other
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer:
Ellen Rimbauer
See Also
The Dark Tower Villains
|